Dolby Media Decoder

The Dolby Media Decoder is a software application that plays files encoded in any of the Dolby audio formats used for optical or online media delivery.

The Dolby® Media Decoder is one part of Dolby Media Producer, the definitive suite of professional software designed to support all Dolby audio codecs used in mastering DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, HD DVD, and Blu-ray Disc™ formats.

Reference Decoding and Monitoring

This professional reference decoder decodes and monitors these Dolby audio formats:

Dolby Digital Plus™

Dolby TrueHD

Dolby Digital

MLP Lossless™

Dolby Pro Logic® II and Dolby Pro Logic

Dolby Digital Surround EX™

The Dolby Media Decoder supports monitoring of consumer listening modes, including downmixing and dynamic range control, and it processes Dolby Headphone technology. It's designed to run locally on a single computer to provide playback and decoding for an individual audio room. It also can decode back to PCM files from any Dolby codec.

The Dolby Media Producer Suite

A complete range of software applications for encoding Blu-ray Disc, DVD-Video, and DVD-Audio content, the Dolby Media Producer Suite includes all of these applications: